Quotes about happening
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“Tell me, if I take you to my room and put you in my bed, what do you think would happen?"

"I can draw you a diagram. Hint: I'm slot B, and you're tab A.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

Thinking, Drawing

“I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.”

John Grisham book The Street Lawyer

Source: The Street Lawyer

Thinking, Past, Future

“Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.”

Gilda Radner (1946–1989) American comedian

Life, Change

“I'm afraid I'll lose myself in you, Gideon. I'm scared I'll lose the part of me I worked so hard to get back.""
""I'd never let that happen."" he promised fiercely. ”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Chapter 8, pg 140
Source: Reflected in You

Parting

“Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive… it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.”

Jennifer Weiner (1970) American writer

Source: Fly Away Home

Thinking

“Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.”

Salman Rushdie Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Source: Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Happiness

“If something happens to me, what would it take to get you to watch over her?” Chase wiped sweat from his brow. “To make sure she gets off the island alive?”
“More than you can give. Such as a firstborn to go with my others. Matching set and all.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

“Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask herself a question, the question that occurred to that man in Bogota. He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good?”

Amy Hempel (1951) Short story writer

The Man in Bogota

Question

“It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

World, Way, Idea, Time

“Coincidences happen, but I've come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or behind it), a great machine is ticking and turning its fabulous gears.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

Universe

“Wartihog put up his hand. "What happens if we can't read, sir?"

"No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read it for you.”

Cressida Cowell book How to Train Your Dragon

Source: How to Train Your Dragon

Reading

“Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

Nature

“What happens if your choice is misguided,
You must try to correct it
But what if it’s too late? What if you can’t?
Then you must find a way to live with it.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Way

“When anything can happen, everything matters.”

Ian McEwan Saturday

Source: Saturday

“If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer

“The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.”

Samuel R. Delany book Dhalgren

Source: Dhalgren

Love, Problem, Learning

“She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.”

Beverly Cleary book Ramona the Pest

Source: Ramona the Pest

Life, Girl, Waiting

“Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

“Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back;
but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.”

Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now

Religion

“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

Art, Music, Feeling, Memory

“Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

People, Housing, Dead

“I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling… I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not, I just did it.”

Stephen J. Cannell (1941–2010) American television producer, writer, novelist and occasional actor

Home, Coffee, Waiting

“Denial, they say, stands for"Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us.”

Cesar Millan (1969) Mexican - American dog trainer and television personality

Source: Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life

Lying, Animals

“Blood hell, what happened to you?" - Dante
The dark wisard and I had a mild disagreement." -Viper
What sort of disagreement?" -Dante
I thought he should be dead and he disagreed." -Viper”

Alexandra Ivy (1961) American novelist

Source: When Darkness Comes

Hell, Dead

“Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surprised by a talking cat. The world was crumbling around him and anything could happen.”

Garth Nix book Abhorsen

Source: Abhorsen

World, Cats, Tear

“And this is what happened, ands this is why the caribou and the wolf are one; for the caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf that keeps the caribou strong.”

Farley Mowat (1921–2014) Canadian author and environmentalist

Strong, Wolf

“I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place. Being the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place is worth it because something interesting always happens.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

“our can'ts were born to happen

our mosts have died in more”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

“Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.”

Chuck Klosterman book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Life, Thinking

“Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.”

Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest

Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“Of course, they're not clowning aroundto make me laugh. They're doing their best to live verylives, and they just happen to fall down sometimes. I think that's cool.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Thinking

“Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone’s got to take care of all your details.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

“We must never forget to pray, and to ask God to remember us when He is arranging things, so that we too may feel safe and have no anxiety about what is going to happen.”

Johanna Spyri book Heidi

Source: Heidi

God, Feeling, Forgetting

“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

As quoted in Oprah, in Her Words : Our American Princess (2008) by Tuchy Palmieri, p. 71

Love, Life, Fear

“How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

World

“Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

Life

“One minute you're munching on a faerie plum the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not,' he added hastily, 'that this has ever happened to me.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Jace to Clary, pg. 192
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
Context: "Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me."

“It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

Way

“Will: Have you ever seen what happens to someone with demon pox? First it lies dormant. One begins to turn yellow and green. Then the swelling sets in -
Jem: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS DEMON POX.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer

“There is never one absolutely right thing to do. All you can do is honor what you believe, accept the consequences of your own actions, and make the best out of what happens.”

Garth Nix book Superior Saturday

Source: Superior Saturday

“TRYING TO FILL THE empty SPACE

i don't know
if I will
ever understand
this Ache.
Perhaps it is
simpley and completely
Love and

what

HAPPENS.
at the end.

Loss

November 17, early morning”

Sabrina Ward Harrison (1975) Canadian writer

Source: Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself

Love, Understanding, Loss

“I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the hell? Anybody who wanders around the world saying, "Hell yes, I'm from Texas," deserves whatever happens to him.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

World, Hell, Evil

“At long last, she gasped out, "It’s Seth."
"What happened?" I demanded. "Is he okay?"
"He ended it." Her crying renewed. "He broke the engagement and told me it was over.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Shadows

Cry

“Everything that happens to you matters to me.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“It could have happened lots of ways. But this is the way it happened. This is the path we took. This is our story.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Way

“Maybe people with special gifts show up when bad things are happening because that's when they're needed most.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

People

“I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

Feeling, Learning, Future

“How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.”

Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher

Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity!

Hate, World

“I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go through or feel what you're going through, but it's happened and I don't know what to do.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

Love, Way, Feeling, Suffering

“Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Incubus Dreams

Source: Incubus Dreams

Sex, Way

“The future happens. No matter how much we scream.”

Derek Walcott (1930–2017) Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright

Source: The Odyssey

Future

“Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

Love, Faith, Feeling, Despair

“Were-Hunters are different from humans. (Ravyn)
You mean other than the fact that you live for several hundred years, can turn into animals, time travel, and wave your hand to make freaky stuff happen? (Susan)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

Travel, Time, Animals

“When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“That human, he's a lesser waiting to happen, in my opinion--nothing less, nothing more”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Unleashed

Waiting

“It's like my whole life never happened,
When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought.
I know this dream, it might be crazy,
But it's the only one I've got.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Life, Dreams

“God wants us to know we are saved, for saved people are dangerous people, willing to face off with the world, unafraid of the consequences since they know that, whatever happens, they will have eternal life.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: Max on Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions

Life, God, People, World

“Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.”

Rod Serling (1924–1975) American screenwriter

People

“If you don't do anything, you simply end up overwhelmed by something happening.”

Matsuri Hino Japanese manga artist

“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”

John Boyne (1971) Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction

Life, Memory, Heart, Personality

“That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best — make it all up — but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (28 May 1934); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

Way

“Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.”

Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth

Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

“Worrying about scarcity is our culture's version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we've been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal (which requires vulnerability) we're angry and scared and at each other's throats.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Change, Time

“You are unnerving the hell out of me, Valkyrie."
"oh" she frowned, petting her bat fitfully " I must have misread the future for the past." she shrugged. "It happens.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: MacRieve

Hell, Past, Future

“In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

Imagination, Chance, Future

“This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.”

Thomas Pynchon book The Crying of Lot 49

Source: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)

“Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?”

Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944) American academic

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Feeling, Change

“I think that when you live in a world with limits… when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

Life, World, Hope, Thinking

“What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?”

Maggie O'Farrell (1972) British writer

Source: After You'd Gone

Love, Personality

“I don't know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if if was Lt Dan, that we are all just floating around, accidental, like on a breeze, but I think… I think… maybe… it's both happening at the same time.”

Winston Groom Forrest Gump

Source: Forrest Gump

Thinking, Time

“We never know what God has up His sleeve. You never know what might happen; you only know what you have to do now.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

God

“How can this be your car? (Nick)
Well, I wrote a really big check that didn’t bounce to the dealer and then the most amazing thing happened…the salesman gave me the keys and let me take it home. It was like magic. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Cars, Home

“One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen.”

Jane Hirshfield (1953) Poet

Source: Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

Reading

“So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: Underdog

Life, People, World

“Rain amplifies your mistakes, and water on the track can make your car handle unpredictably. When something unpredictable happens you have to react to it; if you’re reacting at speed, you’re reacting too late. And so you should be afraid.”

Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

Cars, Water, Speed

“Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd found each other under different circumstances? Maybe in a perfect world. But not in this one.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

World, Boy, Personality, Perfection

“Let's just start and see what happens.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.”

Franz Kafka book The Metamorphosis

Source: The Metamorphosis

Dreams

“Most people think it takes a long time to change. It doesn’t. Change is immediate! Instantaneous! It may take a long time to decide to change…but change happens in a heartbeat!”

Andy Andrews (1959) author and corporate speaker

Source: The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective

People, Thinking, Change, Time

“What can happen in a few minutes changes you forever.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

Change

“Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.”

Mark Vonnegut (1947) American physician and writer

Source: The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity

“To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.”

David Foster Wallace book The Pale King

Source: The Pale King

Death, Loss, Childhood

“We can never possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.”

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor

Time

“What happened to your tan?"--Fang
"It was dirt." --Max”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Final Warning

“What happened to him? (Lioness)
He pissed me off. (Savitar)
Why hasn’t one of the other jaguars taken his place? (Lioness)
He pissed me off… big time. (Savitar)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Unleash the Night

Time

“What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?”

Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director

“If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

People

“Your success as a family… our success as a nation… depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.”

Barbara Bush (1925–2018) former First Lady of the United States

Family, Success, Housing, Dependency

“What happens in the demon realms stays in the demon realms,” said Jace.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“There are no do overs and some things just aren't going to happen. It is a little sad but you just have to embrace what is”

Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer

Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

Sadness

“… nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young